Erecting An Antenna

Let me take the instant to inform what happened to us when we tried to implement up a HDTV antenna so you won't have to blow your time doing the identical thing. First of all our entire family had always craved a HDTV. This was a strain within it's self. There must be 100 diverse brands and types to decide from! So we did eventually acquire one that we all agreed upon.
After we had set up the TV we learned that we also had to get a HDTV antenna to be able to observe our local channels broadcasted in HD. Our original antenna we tried was purchased at the very place as our TV. After we assembled it unitedly in the garage we carried it inside and up the stairs to the 2nd level window. We lifted it out the window and put the 17 yr old on the roof with the antenna. We used walkie talkies to interact between the roof and the family room with the tv. His job was to turn the antenna in tiny increments till the communication came in.
The problem was we could only get 2 channels at a time coming in unobstructed but never could we get all the channels coming in at one time. So we brought the antenna in, carried it to the garage, dissembled it and took it back to buy a bigger one and go through the entire process again. Once more on top of the roof with the 17 yr old. Twisting and turning and all the while in a downfall storm. It wasn't that bad but still raining all the same.
This went on for nearly a total of 4 nights in the period of December during the cold and precipitation. We could never get this HDTV antenna to play so we finally gave up. We brought the big heavyweight antenna in again dissembled it and put it back in the car to return. I was happy it didn't work because it looked horrendous up there on the roof. It stuck out like a unhealthy thumb. Then we did some research on the cyberspace and found an antenna that claimed to do everything we needed and the best part was it was cheaper and way way smaller.
Actually in wasn't no bigger than the size of a cooky sheet. So we purchased the HDTV antenna and brought it home. No construction required and we put the 17yr old back on the roof with the walkie talkies again and this time we had a communication before we even tried to alter the antenna. It was implausible.. we found all the channels reaching in crystal clear without even trying to set the antenna in the perfect "sweet" spot that we were use to setting with the previous added two.
Just by putting it on the roof and pointing it in the generalized path where the stations were located was all that was required! Seemingly this HDTV antenna was a much higher caliber antenna. If I would have known this 5 days before, I could have saved all those evenings, the poor kid on the roof and the aggrevation it took for our household to eventually like HDTV!